{"id":21299,"date":"2010-11-23T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21299"},"modified":"2010-11-23T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T13:21:11","slug":"the-profiling-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21299","title":{"rendered":"The profiling discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the pervs at the Transportation Security Agency started groping us last week, the discussion about the effective practice of profiling people who are actually likely to commit terrorist acts has come to the fore again. The effectiveness of profiling is evident in it’s use by the Israeli government – there have been no hijackings since the Israelis started profiling air passengers.<\/p>\n

Without fail, that fact escapes Washington Post’s envoy to the Obama White House, Eugene Robinson<\/a>;<\/p>\n

What the critics really mean is not that the TSA should let underwear bombers board planes. What they’re saying is: Don’t search me, and don’t search my grandmother. Just search the potential terrorists.<\/p>\n

In other words, they want profiling. That’s a seductive idea, I suppose, if you don’t spend a lot of time worrying about civil liberties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, Gene, it makes much more sense to suspend the civil rights of EVERBODY than to search likely suspects. What a great trade-off. The Washington Times<\/a> discusses al Qaeda’s reaction to last week’s cluster jerk;<\/p>\n

“Operation Hemorrhage” – al Qaeda’s name for the ink-cartridge attacks – cost only $4,200, which they claim “will without a doubt cost America and other Western countries billions of dollars in new security measures. That is what we call leverage.” The fact that the attacks failed is irrelevant; the underwear bomber didn’t detonate his bomb but the Obama administration went off the deep end in response. It is “such a good bargain,” al Qaeda explains, “for us to spread fear amongst the enemy and keep him on his toes in exchange of a few months of work and a few thousand bucks.”<\/p>\n

Al Qaeda has correctly diagnosed that the most effective terror attacks are not “spectaculars” like Sept. 11, 2001, but numerous small-scale strikes that prompt the government to overreact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, all because we’re afraid of offending the people who stand on the side lines, and allow their neighbors to continue attacking us, all the while reaping the benefits of our efforts and tax dollars to keep them safe.<\/p>\n

Maybe if we quit bending over backwards for Muslims and acting as if most terrorists don’t come from their community, they’d start taking a bit of responsibility for the whack jobs who are trying to kill us instead of acting like their community doesn’t foster insanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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